REVOLVER is an analogue synth refill and multisample library, based on the sounds of DSI Evolver keyboard.

In other words, it can be viewed as a continuation of the Analogue Monsters series: REVOLVER provides vivid, dynamic and rich-sounding real analogue sounds, giving you a powerful new synth in your Reason rack.

Specifications:

sample source: 1.63 GB multisample in 24 bit wav format. All samples are perfectly looped and contain the unity note info for quick and proper automapping. The sample source is also included as a multisample library.

I made a track with Live and my new APC40 and this is the result! Unfortunately, video and tone are not really synchronous, cause I put another sound file under the video, because of the bad sound quality of my camera and I cut the video by myself. But in any case - just listen!

Sunday, May 30

With all the questions on the net about neptune, pitch shifting in Reason 5 and Reason 4 etc. I thought I would make a minor tutorial on how to setup a basic pitch shifting setup inside Reason 4hydlide.nl

I've dug Eliot Lipp ever since hearing his track on the Hefty 10 Digest release back in 2006. Cool to see his controller layout here, make sure to stick around for the serious sh*t he drops live at the end:

Producer/DJ "Eliot Lipp" shows us how he uses his Livid Instruments "OHM 64" midi controller to control his Ableton Live set. Eliot explains the functionality and layout of his project and controller; as well as his custom effects and tools to add variation and complexity to his music. After the tutorial there is a section of his live performance from a recent show in Austin Texas that was at Aces Lounge and promoted by Third Eye Productions.

Discord3 is a comprehensive refresh of our popular Discord series of multi-effects. From subtle ADT effects to completely chaotic granular destruction, and everything in between, Discord3 is a capable and broad-reaching multi-effect plug-in.

I sent Robb over at Reason Patch-a-Day some audio clips of one of my favorite rhythm machines, the Siel MDP-40, a week or so back so he could Recycle them into Rex files for us! There's six clips of the Siel run thru a couple of my favorite effects pedals. Go get them!

Where do we begin? The Kong Drum Designer in Reason 5 is a powerhouse drum machine giving you virtually every type of drum sound generation around... analog synth generators, physical modeling, REX loops and slices, sample playback and live sampling. Throw some extra supporting tone generators on top of it and some effects specifically designed for beat production and you've got yourself one hell of an animal.www.propellerheads.se

Update on iTunes for the fantastic ReBirth app. Now to version 1.1! Big thanks to tonalaxis for pointing this out on the PUF. The new version includes the famous Sid Station Mod designed by Massen and Elektron for the original ReBirth software; as well as RB-SEMx a Mod that Peff had a hand in designing with graphics inspired by the Oberheim OB-Mx.

Sidstation Mod 2.0By Massen & Elektron ESI ABA new masterpiece by Massen and Elektron ESI AB. This fantastic mod is a RBM version of the famous sidstation synth. The sounds are all samples from the sidstation. Bleeps galore!

RB-SEMxBy Joy!Peff One of the best 'theme' mods out there, very original. Graphics have an Oberheim-ish design and the drumsounds are made with analog synths!

Other improvements include:- Auto rotates to any orientation- Better performance- Fixes to a few bugs

Go to your iTunes account for the update! Just open up your App library page and click on "Check for Updates" in the bottom right hand corner. rebirthapp.com/

Thursday, May 27

Again a pair of 259e oscillators provide the sound sources. Both are set up in tracking mode with the modulation oscillator controlling the morph, and running in hard sync mode. The principal oscillators are in mem skew "b" mode at about 2 o'clock. The results are going through the 292e in LPF modeand then to the 291e to emulate a resonant low pass filter. Buchla running in Moog mode, if you will. Just more tonal stuff for your enjoyment, and to demonstrate the range of this instrument, and the 259e in particular.boobtube356virb.com/dougcl

Wednesday, May 26

On this day in 1926 one of the greatest trumpet players to ever blow a horn, Miles Davis, was born in Alton, Illinois to an affluent family. One of Miles Davis' first music teachers, Elwood Buchanan, taught him to play without vibrato, a signature to his sound that Miles kept throughout his career. As Miles himself put it, "I prefer a round sound with no attitude in it, like a round voice with not too much tremolo and not too much bass. Just right in the middle. If I can’t get that sound I can’t play anything."

Upon graduating from High School Miles moved to New York City to attend the prestigious Juilliard School of Music, which he dropped out of school quickly, turned off by Juilliard's classical European instruction. By this time he was already playing professionally with Charlie Parker in Harlem's famous Minton's Playhouse and it was only a few years later that Miles would record his first records as a band leader. Of Course, Miles Davis is best known for the album Kind of Blue, the best selling jazz record of all time! This album was a major shift in jazz from the structure of hard bop to a more melody driven jazz based on modes. Below is a later clip of Miles performing in 1989 on the David Sanborn show Night Music, with bassist Marcus Miller:

Getting a vocal performance right means so much more than hitting the right notes at the right time. Sometimes you get that almost perfect performance with perfect feel and presence, but the singer might have missed a few notes. That's when Neptune can save the day. Neptune is an advanced pitch adjuster,audio transposer and voice synth for Record 1.5.www.propellerheads.se

Computer audio has come quite a way since 1981 and here is a short video comparing everything major from the PC speaker to Adlib on up to cards from today! At least, from the perspective of the Lucasarts classic, The Secret of Monkey Island. Get your education on, watch and gain respect for your aural ancestors.

Monkey Island was chosen due to its having the widest amount of versions of the same song, as compared to other games which didn't support this many cards. The final version of the song is from the recent "Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition" on PC/360/PS3.

Some clips recorded by me, others from Crossfire Designs, all awesome.phreakindee

Chaning a bunch of Reaktor instruments toghether gets you some fun stuff. Here's a live techno instrument made with LimeLite, FastFX, vOOgle, Flat Blaster 2. While I'm not the creator of these instruments, I just thought its fun to string things toghether just to get yourself a nice set of things you can play with without having to program much.

The thing is, I feel like I was caught up in programming my own stuff when there's a ton of things which Reatkor offers that can be simply chained and used like so.

The latest issue of Reason Wizardry is now available for download! This issue discusses Envelope Followers and comes with some great combinator examples done by Jeremy Janzen. If you haven't subscribed to RW already, you can try out a month for free by becoming a fan of Nucleus SoundLab on Facebook! What are you waiting for?

I Blame Coco is the new band fronted by Sting's daughter, Coco Sumner. Now I usually cringe when I hear of a rockstar's lineage going into the family business (Wilson Phillips anyone?), but Coco appears to be the real deal. Of course it doesn't help that her forthcoming album is being produced by Klas Åhlund of Teddybears fame. Which is probably why Robyn is helping with the chorus on I Blame Coco's first single, Caesar:

Here is a new freebie, you will have alot of fun with! I made this "FreeFill" to showcase a new series I am making, called "-008' Scratch Techniques"

In this joint we got the standard "Ahh" & "Fresh" patches.The most scratched-ed samples of all time?I thought they would be perfect to demo this technique..Also included are a "BeatScratch "ToneScratch" "& "SampleScratch"In those 5 patches, there are over 330 scratched .wav files!

PDF Manual is in the .zip file, READ IT!but as always, get at me if you need any help.

I have to admit I almost didn't download this refill. You see I'm not really into Hip Hop and didn't think I'd be interested in a scratching refill, but I figured it's made by -008' it must be worth checking out! And it is... Yes, there's scratching for Rap/Hip Hop on here, but there's more to this refill than that. The "Tone Scratch 1" combi would sound killer in an Electro Clash setting and "Sample Scratch 7" is a lot of fun to play with. Obviously a lot of thought went into the included combinators, "Freshmaker" uses D1 as a mute button, which is great for creating stuttering effects (perhaps to mimic crossfaders?) All of the combis are set up with RPG-8 arpeggiators controlling the NNXT samplers, which makes creating scratch patterns quick and easy. Scratch Techniques - it's free, it's by -008', what do you have to lose?

Some big news is dropping this week at Propellerheads headquarters! Reason 5? Recycle 3? I'm hoping to hell it's a combination of the two. I'd love a wav slicing Dr. Recycler inside of Record with an updated sampler for Reason 5 with granular synthesizer capabilities. What are your hopes?

The little video synth that could rides again. The frame rate on the (web)cam I filmed this with was really strange -- in reality the picture moves/flickers smoothly. Pictures of the synth: s417.photobucket.com/...

Friday, May 21

The Mopho Keyboard is a compact and affordable—but powerful—monophonic analog synthesizer. The voice architecture is similar to a single voice of the Prophet '08, but with a couple of twists to distinguish it from its award-winning sibling. We have added two sub-octave generators—one per oscillator—for additional girth and crushing basses. It also has an audio input that lets you process external audio and mix Mopho's own audio output back in pre-filter for feedback effects that can range from subtle distortion to extreme skronk. It features the same semi-weighted keyboard action as the Prophet.www.davesmithinstruments.com

Line 6's Propellerhead Product Specialist Matt Piper demonstrates how to make a Ring Modulator effect for guitar, using the filter section of Reason's Malström synthesizer.From Matt's blog at http://line6.com/blog

Requiem (365 singhiozzi per Dawson) work on paper by Gianni Morettirepeat! - suite for printing machines, field recordings, electronics and guitar by Gary Marlowe

being the first collaboration between Moretti and Marlowe, repeat! represents an attempt, a first step on the road of the two artists towards a new form of music in the context of visual art.

based on the works created by Marlowe for his aural frames installations, which pursue the development of music towards absolute singolarity in a defined context and moment in time, the work presented with Moretti is, in the same instant, ambient and also co-protagonist. without creating a dilemma: in an advanced Eno-esque definition, the music is seen in architectonic way, as an inherent part of the ambience in which Moretti´s work is presented. Instead of coming closer to irrepetibilty, as generally attempted by Marlowe in his installations, here the music is being repeated after 33 minutes, merging with the graphic proposal of infinite repetition.

the suite repeat!, which proposes big industrial printing machines as soloists, is made of numerous field recordings of significant ambiences, precisely selected and modified by Marlowe. Some examples are the supertram in Sheffield, a printing room in Cuba, a greek restaurant, printing presses in Idaho and Utrecht, and finally, as the basic ambience of the work, the acoustic image of class of fine arts students visting... right, an art gallery.

leaving behind conventional boundaries between music and sound design, Marlowe proposes a composition of surprising development, with elements both mantric and transcendental. The repetition of unexpected noises brings a profound acoustic experience, close to meditation. A compositorial mirror of the requiem by Moretti, with an uncompromising guitar, in the same moment invading and pleasant, pushing the thoughts to... repeat. da capo.

Thursday, May 20

Today we release our latest sound library; "Project Echo: Snapshots from Space", and it's a blast. It was designed by processing high resolution NASA satellite images with spectral analysis, and a whole lot of granular echo and resynthesis. Very unique and whole a lot of fun. In the past we've covered the Arctic, the jungle and the city - so now we can add outer space to that list. Loads of audio demos and details over at the website so go have a look. If you like our previous stuff you'll probably love it.

On August 12, 1960 the Echo 1 satellite was successfully put into orbit. At 100 feet in diameter, the giant metalized balloon was used to reflect radio, telephone and television signals from earth for over 7 years before reentry and burn up in May of 1968.

I have just received a Launchpad from the good people at Novation and I am really enjoying it so far. I have already done a first impressions review comparing the Launchpad vs APC40 so I thought a tutorial might be more interesting. So in this episode I am going to cover the basics of how the different modes work. Comment if you want to see more Launchpad tutorials and I might dig in deeper!

part of my new song - soundcloud.com/unariusI'm not very good at creative FM programming, so I take pleasure in creating harmonically rich waveforms and molesting the sound with expensive pedals. In this segment, the ever-classic Yamaha DX7 gets toned down with a Moog MF-101 for some envelope action, then gets blown to bits with an awesome Devi Ever Spectacular Aenima with a Death by Audio Robot in the feedback loop. The feedback loop is controlled by the photo eye on the pedal.plague1715

Friday, May 14

This gets you thinking about how to create a two-band reverb, and also how to extend control over your devices in reason and record by connecting two (or more) combinators together. Hope you get something useful from this. Come visit me on reason101 dot net when you have a chance. Cheers!

The second part on how to create a 2-band reverb in Propellerhead Reason and Record. Here I get into how to program as much control over the reverbs as possible by using 2 connected Combinators. You will have to save the file as an .rns or .record file, but this allows you a greater degree of control over how your reverbs operate than if they were all packed into a single combinator. visit me on reason101 dot net when you have a chance. Thanks for all your feedback and thanks for watching.

In this week's episode we'll learn how to load the Reason Drum Kits combinator patches and reroute each drum mic from the standard 14 channel mixer inside the combinator to Record's main mixer. Doing this allows you to mix your individual drum mics with all the killer EQ and dynamics processing available in every mix channel in record. There is quite simply no better way to get a pro sounding drum mix than mixing each mic individually on a pro-level console.James Bernard Propellerheads Product SpecialistBuy James Bernard's music!

Just downloaded GrainCube an insane Reaktor ensemble designed by Richard Devine & Josh Kay (of DevineSound) with the aid of Rachmiel and Igor of Twisted Tools. This is my first time messing with this ensemble - it looks like it's going to be killer!

Tuesday, May 11

Just received word from -008' that it's his one year anniversary in the business:

Hey Guys!

Hope you all are makin some hot beats...

I am celebrating my one year in business. Thanks for signing up and I have big things planned for the next year!

Feel free to give me a shout on any new refills you want to see in the future.

Peace & Good Music.

-008'

According to About.com a traditional first year anniversary gift is paper. They recommend framed photographs, books, stationary, coupons (wtf?), or love letters. But you know what else is made of paper? Money! Why don't you head over to www.008refills.com and pick up one of his killer Reason ReFills! I recommend Drumutations.

Monday, May 10

Ran across this song today on YouTube and dug it! It's from a one man project by Warren Hildebrand called Foxes in Fiction. Lo-fi organic electronic shoegaze! Download mixes, live recordings and other goodies at www.foxesinfiction.com

Sunday, May 9

Luftrum: Ambient is a journey between worlds, from summer afternoons to the icy depths of space. With dense washes of warm, shimmering pads and soundscapes, gentle guitar and piano arpeggios, music boxes, delicate, and ethereal sound effects that totter between beauty and despair, this is a particularly inspiring collection for the ambient musician, film, TV or game soundtrack composer. Its darker elements include chilling machine sounds, disturbing alien atmospheres, the voices of haunted children, water droplets, plus a sprinkling of the avant-garde.

Luftrum is a respected sound designer and electronic experimentalist, known for his Ambient ReFills and atmospheric field recordings. This library incorporates a 127 MB sample library full of fascinating details covering interior and exterior atmospheres, rural ambiences, creatures at rest, and synth soundscapes.www.camelaudio.com/LuftrumAmbientAlchemy.phpTorley.com

Saturday, May 8

Remixes for the Reason Patch a Day Challenge are now being posted over at Reason Patch a Day. Chris Stallone remixed my 15728 piece and turned it into his own! Also some great remixes by DJ Mad Wax and Robb-a-Day thus far. I'll hopefully start working on my remixes next week....... Check it out!

Thursday, May 6

A continuation of how to send your FX to the front, back, left and right sections of your mix in Propellerhead Reason and Record. This part of the series goes over creating a few modulations for the FX themselves, and thinking outside the Box / Combinator. In this way you can create some phaser sweeps for the front and back Effects. Thanks to Geoffrey Wakefield for his suggestion on doing something like this.

Tuesday, May 4

STEREOGUM is currently premiering Babelonia on-line; the track is the first glimpse of SVIIB's forthcoming album Disconnect From Desire, which comes out July 13th on Vagrant Records. Here's what SVIIB guitarist Benjamin Curtis says about the track:

We realized something else about our music, which is that there’s this heavy quality to it, this powerful quality that we weren’t really aware of because we were just writing at home. Going out and playing every night and discovering that, we got really inspired.

This highly unusual Reason ReFill is powered by six years of live nighttime field recording footage captured at various locations all over the Big Apple. Hand-selected gems were processed, resynthesized, combined, mangled and then processed again to produce a truly one-of-a-kind set of sounds for your Reason and Record productions.

Haunting carriage rides through Central Park, ships docking at South Street Seaport, the chatter of tourists and traffic in Times Square, street performers and other "interesting" folk, cars, trains, busses and more from the darkest hours of night in New York, transformed into a diverse, usable, weird and wonderful collection of sonic tools.

Rex Powered

At the heart of every sound in this ReFill is a Rex file. From the drum loops, to the musical elements, to the evolving ambient soundscapes (some nearly two minutes long). Using Rex files to power this collection brings about an entirely new level of sonic potential for your music.

Long-playing field recordings are sliced and diced for instant access to the most interesting elements. The included Combinator instruments, loops and drum kits only begin to scratch the surface. Around every corner is another opportunity for you to take them to entirely new places of your own.

How to Destroy Angels is Trent Reznor's new band with sexpot wife Mariqueen Maandig (ex West Indian Girl) handling vocal duties. Wonder if the name is a nod to Angelology? Anyhow, I never could get into Trent's voice but always loved NIN music, so I'm looking forward to this new outing... According to their website they'll have a "Self-titled six-track EP out this summer. Exact date TBA". Apparently Trent isn't auctioning off everything on Ebay. Guess I'll save up for when he auctions off Mariqueen at the end of the Angels tour, because every hipster needs an Asian girlfriend.

UPDATE:

Evidently How to Destroy Angels was the name of Coil's first single, which let's face it is so much better of a name than United/Zyklon B Zombie.